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Bouche Bée
improvisation on the edges of language

Petri Huurinainen (guitar)
Emmanuelle Waeckerlé (voice, tabla)

“bouche bée” is a French expression meaning “ to stand open-mouthed, stunned,
speechless, gaping and gawping ”

BOUCHE BÉE brings in dialogue Emmanuelle’ s vocal repertoire of human inarticulation and non-verbal sounds with Petri Huurinainen’s brief melodies, and odd noises all
constructed from the instrument itself, stretching its’ limits. Between 2006 and 2010,

BOUCHE BÉE performed in the UK, France, and Austria. After a few years break BOUCHE BÉE came back to life in 2014 as a completely analogue and acoustic outfit. lesbouchebee.com
BOUCHE BÉE was formed in 2006 as one of the outcomes of VINST, a project
exploring the body as language and the interplay between the real and the
virtual.

VINST is a highly sensitive vocal instrument, part human part virtual: a fusion of human body and digital technology, a body without organs consisting of Emmanuelle’s body image displaying points of sonic sensitivity, responding to touch but also to mood and sensibility.

ewaeckerle.com/projectbox/VINST3/

Petri Huurinainen
is a Finnish artist and musician currently living in London. He
works predominantly with drawings and live-based sound performances. http://
www.phuurinainen.com

Emmanuelle Waeckerlé
is a London based artist and academic whose
interdisciplinary practice explores the materiality of language and connecting
issues of place and identity. www.ewaeckerle.com

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VOISIN VOISINE
(neighbor neighbor)
As a starting point of bringing together the subtle sounds we make with the rather loud and joyous chorus of the Redmond files, we imagined us as neighbours, existing and improvising in adjacent spaces. After careful listening to the full recording, we selected a few sections to lay randomly over the last recording of Bouche Bée live performance (Lucy’s lounge, London, February 2015) imagining that the door between us is sometimes opened and sometimes closed, allowing the dynamics of the two simultaneous improvisations to mix and merge, until they part again.

PS the title is inspired by
Cousin Cousine, a classic French romantic comedy from
1975 telling the impossible love story between 2 distant cousins meeting at a wedding banquet.

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from The Redmond Files, a Joy of Sound Production, released August 5, 2016

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